Linda Friedrich, Director of WestEd’s Strategic Literacy Initiative, will participate in a presentation at the 2019 Making Schools Work Conference, July 8-13, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Southern Regional Education Board’s (SREB) conference offers professional learning for K-12 teachers, counselors, principals, technology center directors, and state and district education agency personnel. The event — formerly known as the High Schools That Work Staff Development Conference — attracts thousands of educators each year.
Learn about Linda’s session below. Hope to see you there.
State and District Leaders Supporting PD Together: The Maryland Reading Apprenticeship
Thursday, July 11, 1-2pm
Baltimore Convention Center, Room 343
In this interactive session, state and district leaders from Maryland will share their process and lessons learned from a first-year statewide Striving Reader-supported rollout of the Reading Apprenticeship instructional framework to support ongoing learning for middle grades and high school content area teachers.
Presenters will engage attendees in thinking through how the experiences and lessons from Maryland’s work might apply to their own contexts.
Presenters:
- Kathleen Maher-Baker, English/Language Arts High School Specialist, Maryland State Department of Education
- Heather Lagamen, Board Member, Learning Forward of Maryland
- Linda Friedrich, Strategic Literacy Initiative Director, WestEd
- John Abbate, ELA Resource Teacher, Baltimore County Public Schools
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